D0C0M2V0PfPf the time M0D3C6P8PeC0PfM2 has gone M0D3C6P8PeC0P8M2 D0C6PfM6V9 time, gone ?!? oh nooo!!! you and these endless dialogues again? D0C0P2M2V0 yes M0D3C6P8PeC0P8M2 D0C6P6M6V8 well, it seems that you haven't learned much since we last met. P3action! M7P5M6P4 we want action! D0C0P2M2V0 i see M0D3C6P8P3C0P8M2D0C6 P1V9M0 well, 'you' are gonna disappoint this time because todays menu does not include octopussy-equalizers and such 'action'. only time-eating high-level mathematics is served. P8M6 oh lord. high-level math.. such as? D0C0P2M2V0 such as.. M0D3C6P8PaC0OgP8M2PfPfT1Z1R V0 D0 C1P2M0V7 ho hoo! M5P8M0VfS6 it's me, tai-pan M5P8M0 of phalanx M5P8M0, presenting you my second intro at last. A2S3(note: even if this is more like demo i prefer to call it as intro just because that word sounds better in my ears. ) P3V7yeah, after drinking thousands bottles of jaffM1a, sM0pending countless nights without sleep, thM5rowing up three timesM0, and falling sick twice, i eventually managed to finish it! making this intro took only a little over two months to code, so i'm getting faster all the time, hou hou. P6C2 well, let's get to the point and start with the credits: C5M2V0 coding by M3P1M0P5P8M4P1M2P5C3 M5V6 tai-pan P6M1P4M5P2 P3C1M2V0 font by M3P1M0P5P8M4P1M2P5C4 M5V6 blade P6M1P4M5P2 C1M0V8 and this nice tune called "creative human" is composed by creative S4 walkman M5PcVfA4S2 M0 of it M1P8M0P1A1VfS0 M0V9C2 so, here it is. over two months work under your eyes. i hope you find my 3d-routine satisfactory. i have to confess that i really am a bit proud O4of it because it can provide some unusual feO0atureZ2s whiO9ch haven't much existed in previous 3d-demos. D0C1M5P2V4just stay on the same bat-channel and you shall find out! M0C4PaV9 perhaps a brief description of history of this intro would fit here well. it all began as early as two years ago when i first began to think how it would be possible to produce some 3d-grafix. after some heavy thinking i managed to create a clumsy basic-program (using my good old amstrad cpc) which produced 'almost' perfect vector-grafix. D6C5but then i forgot the whole idea till last x-mas, when i began to think what to do in next intro. so i dig up old formulas i used in the basic-program and i began to convert it to amiga. the 68000-conversation was surprisingly easy to do. the first version i made in only two days and it worked fine except it was slow, too slow. C1so a lots of debugging was Oadone until i came up with this final version. i wrote the main rouO0tine abouO5t three times (each time it was a completely different, still doing the same thing but always faster than the earlier versions.) until it come to the requirements i had put to it. it is not easy to describe how powerful it is but as a sample the diamond you are watching consists of 19 points and 48 lines and still theres a lot of unused time. ofcourse you notice without saying that the screen is updated on every frame. D0C4V6P7ok, end of boring info-part P3next on bat-channel: some quick messages to a few persons. D0C5P2V8first a same message to following guys: trashin#adducers, gizzy#crush (norway), bonfire#vortex 42, and psycho bill#sunriders. i haven't heard from you since ages. why? please contact soon, i miss you all. S5hohohahohehihohuha...S8 then message to hackman#deathstar: cut the bull, ok? then message to mic#world of wonders: congratulations! you got my amiga pregnant, and the baby will most likely born in a couple of month. one last message to all of you. yes, we have lately been asked to join several groups, and always we have given the same answer: nope P4 and it always will be the same, even if you were a green marsian with planet full of amiga 3000's . so if you are considering to ask us to join your group (whatever group) , don't! it would be only a waste of paper. D0C3P7V5and next on bat-channel: an unusual feature in 3d-business! C4P6Vayes, this roO6utine really does something which i consider as not-so-veryO0-often-seen-thing. just inspObect carefully the spacecraft you are about to see and you might guess it without helping. anyway, here's some data about the vessel you are looking at. M2V0 type: M3P1M0PbM4P1M2P7 cobra mk6 M3P1M0PbM4P1M2P7C2 max. speed:M3P1M0PbM4P1M2P7 92800 mph M3P1M0PbM4P1M2P7C3 armament: M3P1M0PbM4P1M2P7 M0V7ammuittes-13 remote-control-laserguns, silos for isolerssi-4-class heat-seeking missiles, and munatvex-3 spacemine-launcher M2V0 crew no. M3P1M0PbM4P1M2P7 3 and dog M3P1M0PbM4P1M2P7C1 cargohold M3P1M0PbM4P1M2P7 enough M3P1M0PbM4P1M2P7 M0V6and it's all drawn with best possible hidden lines. A3S9 well... hummm... almost! yes, this hidden-line-routine works fine with round-shaped objects ( except ball is a bit difficult, he ho he hi ho hu) but antennas and such things are not perfectly drawn. but when working with lines they never are. S6( unless you create a miracle which calculates the crosspoint of two lines and then tries to decide what to with it.) S9 the principle of deciding if draw a line or not is very simple. if we have plane which consists of points and lines drawn between them, it is very easy to calculate whether it's visible or not by using phytagora's sentence when we know a point from plane's normal which goes via some plane's point. simple as that! C4filled vector-grafix is my next target on this subject, but it won't happen in the near future because i have other things to do. C3PaV5 ping pong pang pong. time fO8or a commercial advertisement for ... bat-channel!!! C4P4V8 the sirius cyberO0netics proudly pOfresents it's newest product for home-computer-users. this new, fascinating device is called skycalc P4 after it's creator, skyscraper. this fabulous instrument is used for calculating and it contains all the functions that today's highly educated user can dream about. this particular model skyscraper designed for his own use, it has only those buttons he needs ( and which meaning he just and just understands). these are: one, plus, and equal. this model costs 154.99 dollars and is sold in every well-equipped computer-stores. OaD0C3PaV5 and next on bat-channel: some information about phalanx today. C1P4V8O0 phalanx has Ocgrown a lot since the first days. now i (try) to list our present memberlist here: P4Vaapollyon % blade % blob % buffalo % cable % crusher % devil % fulcrum % mogwai % roland % skyscraper % tai-pan % zeus V4P4mithrill is kicked out because of unnatural mating habits! Vabut even if we have quite many members we have always room for more. infact right now we are looking for a talented grafix-artist to join us. so if you think you are good enough, contact us with some samples of your work. (my address is coming up soon.) D0C5P4V8hooray, we just got couple brand new members !! (well, the other member isn't really O4new. cable just has changed his image to a positive diO0rection.) V7first weO1 got a new mutant called oracle P6 he has some super-natural capabilities such as he can give the right answer to whatever question. V5what? P4V6you don't believe me? well i shall then ask oracle some hard questions so that you can see i am right. (and oracle too, always!) D0C2hey oracle, are you a new member of phalanx? O3Pfha haa, did you saw it? he said yes! all right, let's give him a tougher one. oracle, is the moon a big cheese? O2Pf correct again!!! now it's time to terminate some lies which have been told about us. oracle, have we ranked ourselves as no. 1 or at least 2 in finland? O2Pf so hackman in deathstar has again spoken bullshit about us? O3Pf there he goes! ladies and gentlemen, oracle. the final true-teller. O3PfO4 D0C4 then the other new member is a complete reformed version of old unable cable. i Odhave the joy to present: supercable P4M1P3M0P4 the final hope of mankind if the andromedans attacked earth. she.. err.. he is power, he is steal, he is justice, he is love! you may wonder how this unbeliavable reborn is possible. let me tell you, it is a miracle! but you see, when cable was a little baby (with always brown in the pants) the doctors took several x-ray-photos of his head (because they tried to search cable's brains) so young man was exposed to large amount of radiation, maybe that has somethiOeng to do with this rapid mutation. but now we have used enough cable's valuable time. we have to let him go and save the world. good luck supercable, you'll need it! C1PfVaok, enough bullO0shit. now Oji'll print out my address so that you can contact me. as i said: good grafix-artist badly wanted. also new swapping-contacts are always welcome. attention! coming up now: my address so grab a pencil and a peace of arse-cleaning-device and write to: tai-pan Pf , nybacka Pf 16a Pf , 07590 Pf huuvari Pf , finland Pf oh, and if you wanna hear my unpleasant voice, dial: A1Se358-15-31881 and ask for antti P7V8all right. by the way, the object you are looking at is not a sword of sodan. it's a sword of tai-pan, he ha he hu hi ho he ... C2O6P6 and before phalanx-greetings a competition: Vayes, now an international brain-cO0ontest O7for all of you. you are about to see a box. a normal post-package made of cardboard. your task is to find out the top of this box. use the arrows as guide. it's not very easy task but try anyway. the first who sends me the right answer wins a errr... price. ( we haven't decided yet what the price is but at least it'll be wrapped in this new desing post-package and sent in express.) good luck and let the best man win! PfO8D0C1Pf ok, now it's time for our almO0ost complete gOireetings-list. first our golden regards fly to following groups: Z3 A3S6 abyss # aces # acu # alcatraz # amiga industries # amiga vision # asia inc. # avirex # beastie boys # black monks # byterapers inc. # cascade # cosmos # destiny and zigag # finnish bit wizards # freedom force # freestyle uk. # it # kefrens # overload # razor 1911 # sae of megaforce # sargon # sex inc. # sunriders # tetragon # the band # the dream warriors # the silents # the supervisors and double density crew # the supply team # triangle # wizards inc. # world of wonders # x-men S8D4C5and normal greetings must go to : S57th heaven # ac/dc # action force # adducers # amiga force # amiga lords # atomic # atomic intelligence # atrox # attrium # avalache # bloodsuckers # brow-beat # c.h.a.d. # clones # critters # crush # cryptoburners # d-tect # ddt # deathstar # defcon 5 and highspeed # disknet # ecf # election # energy # epsilon # escape # first wave # flexible # freddy # fun and function # genesis # ghostriders # hellcats # hexagon # hi-tech and ydex # hoaxers # horizon # hti # ids # imp 666 # impact and phisto # insanity # iron lords # lords of conquest # mach 4 # mechanix # megastyle # miami byte corp. # mirage # nemesis # new line # new order # new style inc. # noise # northern lights # nzc # one way # pentangle # pseudo-ops # robot session and strange 42 # secret force # silver hawks # software agency # software of sweden # sub zero # talisman # tat # the amiga supervisors # the astral lightning # the crowded house # the crusaders # the culprits # the dudes # the flash team # the gang of triangle # the gurus # the link of the silents # the rising force # the round circle # the senses # the shining 8 # the unborn group # tmt # trash # unO4itrax and atomic # vision one # vortex 42 # wanton # wnc # wot # xa # zaxs D0C1P6OhPfV8 all right. time for final words. errr... what to say? boy, i hate these sentimental parts. well, not coming new phalanx-demos in the near future because we have just started a top secret project with cia, or was it ira. no, it was unicef. no no, it was ... P4and in case you wanna party, come to lahti in finlandia on 7-9 april, because then the phalanx&overload&x-men&deathstar-parties will take place, if the god wills. D0C3P5that's it. gotta go. see you. bye bye. adios amigos. heja finland. auf wiedersehen. joo tws, loppu jo, paina nappia. transmission over. signed out: tai-pan P8B1M1PaM8P3M7PaM9P3M0P4B2M4O4P1M2PfPfOgB0Z1PfPf